Button-fastening strip



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E. WOODWABD.

BUTTON FASTENING STRIP. No. 314,553. Patented Mar. 24, 1885.

'FEVzU /fz @M M707 IlNrrn Aralar ERASTUS WOODVARD, OF SOMERVILLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BELLE PATENT BUTTON FASTENER COMPANY, OFKENNEBUNK, MAINE.

BUTTON-FASTENING STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,553, dated March2%, 1885.

Application filed July 28, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERAsTUs WooDWARD, of Somerville, county ot'Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inButton-Fastening Strips, of which the following description. inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings represent-ing like parts.

In my application, No. 129,551, iiled April 28, 1884, I have described amachine for setting buttons upon boots, shoes, and other articles bymeans ot' a fastening cut from a strip.

The object ol' this invention is to cover the button-fastening strip'employed in the machine described in the said application.

Myinvention consists, essentially, in a bntton-fastening strip cnt fromsheet metal, the said strip presenting` a series of T-shaped nailsconnected only by the ends of their heads, the under edge ofthe webi'rom whichthe heads are cut being provided with projections locatedbetween the Shanks ot' the fastenings and in the line in which the saidweb is to be cut to separate the l'astenings, the said projectionsentering the material at and preventing lthe fastening from twisting inthe leather, and also obviating catching ot' the stocking upon the endsof the head. The upper side otl the web is also prel'erably indented forthe reception ofthe prong ofthe driver and cutter.

Figure l in side elevation represents part of a button-lastening stripembodying my invention, and Fig. 2 a top view thereof.

The strip shown in Fig. l is out from sheet metal so as to leaveseparate shanks a, with head-forming parts b extended therefrom only inthe direction of the width of the shanks, the web constituting the headsbeing of substantially the thickness of the shanks at their junctionwith the web, and being indented at its upper side, as shown at c,midway between the shanks, to thus form notches for the reception of theprongs of the combined driver and cutter-bar, and to also formprojections d,

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which,when the web is severed and the fastener is driven, enter thematerial at each side the shank c. Each nail is Tshaped, and the armsforming the head extend from the top of the shank at each of its twoedges, or in the direction oi' the width of the shank. The sides of theshanks and heads are in the condition of the plate from which the stripwas cut.

I do not broadly claim a nail-strip composed of a series of connectedheads with projecting Shanks; nor Vdo I claim a nail-strip in which theshanks are connected each with the other by a thin web and wherein theheads are joined side by side instead of end to end..

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a button-fasteningstripcomposed of sheet metal and presenting a series ot' shanks joinedonly by a web suitable to form heads t'or the Shanks, each shank havinga head-forming portion projecting from each edge, the head forming webbeing provided with projections d, which form end portions of the headof the separated fastener adapted to enter the material when thefastener is driven, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a button-fastening stripcomposed of sheet metal and presenting a series ot' shanks joined onlyby a web suitable to form heads for the Shanks, each shank having ahead-forming portion projecting from each edge, the headforming webbeing provided with projections d on its lower side to enter thematerial when the fastener is driven, the upper side of the said webhaving notches 0, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERASTUS VOODVARD'.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, XV. H. SIGsToN.

